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Ch. 595
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2007 Laws of Maryland
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(i) coordination with and expansion of community mental
health crisis response services; and
(ii) the expansion of the Forensic Alternative Services Team or
the Maryland Community Criminal Justice Treatment Program, with due
consideration given to the unique needs and existing programs operating in local
jurisdictions.
(b) On or before January 1, 2008, the Mental Hygiene Administration shall
report, in accordance with § 2-1246 of the State Government Article, to the Senate
Finance Committee, the House Health and Government Operations Committee, and
the Transformation Grant workgroup on the implementation plan developed under
subsection (a) of this section.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That:
(a) The Mental Hygiene Administration shall develop an implementation
plan requiring each core service agency in the State work with each core service
agency to develop a plan to enter into memoranda of understanding with local
detention centers to establish a data sharing initiative that:
(1) promotes the continuity of treatment for individuals with a serious
mental illness who have received services in the public mental health system and who
become involved in the criminal justice system;
(2) requires the local detention center to electronically submit
implements electronic submission by the local detention center of information on each
arrestee for each 24-hour period to the public mental health system's administrative
services organization;
(3) requires the administrative services organization to cross reference
the information received from the detention center in order to identify residents within
the jurisdiction who are public mental health system enrollees with a serious mental
illness and provide the names of the enrollees to the core service agency for the
jurisdiction; and
(4) requires a core service agency representative on receipt of the
names of the enrollees, to:
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(i) interview the enrollee;
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(ii) obtain written consent from the enrollee to release
treatment information to the detention center health care provider; and
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